Editing Kart racing (section)

== History ==
[[File:Photography by Victor Albert Grigas (1919-2017)00025 sept 62 (37295972680).jpg|thumb|right|Kart racing in [[Illinois]] in 1962]]
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B1007-0016-001, 5. Berliner K-Wagen-Rennen.jpg|thumb|Kart racing in [[Berlin]], [[East Germany]], 1963]]
American [[Art Ingels]] is generally accepted to be the father of karting. A veteran hot rodder and a race car builder at [[Kurtis Kraft]], he built the first kart in [[Southern California]] in 1956.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fiakarting.com/web/karting/webkarting.nsf/CIKFIA_Dpliant50ansKarting.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090824043652/http://www.cikfia.com/web/karting/webkarting.nsf/CIKFIA_Dpliant50ansKarting.pdf|url-status=dead|title=FIA Karting|archivedate=24 August 2009|website=www.fiakarting.com}}</ref> Early karting events were held in the [[Rose Bowl Stadium]] car park.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/opinions/why-karting-will-outlast-gimmick-filled-racing-without-a-social-media-strategy |title= Why karting will outlast gimmick-filled racing – without a social media strategy |last= Preston |first= Lerner |date= 23 April 2021 |access-date= 23 April 2021}}</ref> Instantly popular, Karting rapidly spread to other countries,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vintagekarts.com/europe.htm |title=How the kart was first introduced to Europe – by Burton Reinfrank – June 2004 |publisher=Vintagekarts.com |access-date=2011-08-08}}</ref> and currently has a large following in Europe.

The first kart manufacturer was an American company, Go Kart Manufacturing Co. (1957). In 1959, [[McCulloch Motors Corporation|McCulloch]] was the first company to produce engines for karts. Its first engine, the McCulloch MC-10,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://macbobaust.com/kart_engines.html |title=The McCulloch Kart Engines |publisher=Macbobaust.com |date=2002-09-15 |access-date=2011-08-08}}</ref> was an adapted [[chainsaw]] [[two-stroke engine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vintagekarts.com/mcstory.htm |title=1959 – McCulloch's Entry into Kart Racing |publisher=Vintagekarts.com |access-date=2011-08-08}}</ref> Later, in the 1960s, [[motorcycle]] engines were also adapted for kart use, before dedicated manufacturers, especially in Italy ([[Italian American Motor Engineering|IAME]]), started to build engines for the sport.